Synonyms for lustration
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : luhs-treyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlʌs treɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for lustration
Définition of lustration
- noun purification
- The idea of lustration, however, is not involved in that of metempsychosis.
- Extract from : « Elements of Folk Psychology » by Wilhelm Wundt
- The corpse also must be subjected to a lustration by which it is purified.
- Extract from : « Elements of Folk Psychology » by Wilhelm Wundt
- In this case the sole purpose of the sweating is obviously that of lustration.
- Extract from : « Elements of Folk Psychology » by Wilhelm Wundt
- Birds are unceasingly attentive to neatness and lustration of their plumage.
- Extract from : « Insect Architecture » by James Rennie
- All these practices point either to lustration or propitiation.
- Extract from : « British Goblins » by Wirt Sikes
- He had been obliged to undergo a lustration of near an hour, before he could be put to bed.
- Extract from : « Damon and Delia » by William Godwin
- Let them perform a lustration; let them purify this House, and this country, from this sin.
- Extract from : « Public Speaking » by Clarence Stratton
- And yet, though all these things are impure, there is no lustration.
- Extract from : « Hills and the Sea » by H. Belloc
- It is neither immersion nor sprinkling nor any other mode of lustration which marks us out as God's.
- Extract from : « Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians » by James Denney
- Wundts further elucidations refer to the relation of taboo to lustration and sacrifice.
- Extract from : « Totem and Taboo » by Sigmund Freud
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